Orientation Week

Hello blog readers,

Monday, Feb 23, 2015

First day of Orientation, at 9 am all international students were to arrive in Inchon Hall to be split into groups 1-7 and listen to the orientation, speeches, and etc for a couple hours and then we were free. I was in group 7, 24/7 and met my KUBA buddy, and all had lunch together. I met a bunch of new girsl from taiwan, singapore, japan, etc. after lunch we took a tour of the campus. And be prepared you will be taking a lot of corny pics but I didn't mind much.
Next we went to register for KUPID, the blackboard of Korea University. (I found the set up kind of annoying but got through it and was able to leave early.)

                           Hint: For your password have no double letters (ex. Hello)

 I arrived back at the dorm before all of my roommates. I was completely exhausted. The night before I couldn’t sleep and had woken up at 3am and stayed up all morning until it was time for the orientation. I slept all day.

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015

The second day of orientation. We met up at Woodang hall and we went over the forms required by everyone to get or bank card and student card. Again I think they made the forms harder than it should have been. After orientation we went to lunch and afterwards me and the roommates went to explore in Itaewon. The foreign city of Korea. It was my first time riding the subway it was fun. It took about 15 minutes to get to Itaewon on the Subway. In the subway we went makeup shopping and went above ground to do more shopping.We mostly did window shopping than actual shopping because we planned to go to. We returned home around 5:30 because every group had a party to attend. 

At 6 was mine and my group went to a restaurant to drink soju and beer and eat kimchi jjigae. The placed was packed not only with our group but another group of koreans. The food was delicious as always and then they taught us drinking games. I found the games to be so much fun. Games: Baskins 31 (when everyone goes around and says up to 3 numbers and who ever is stuck staying 31 drinks). Another was the (group counts of according to the amount of people in the group and if anyone say a number at the same time both drink) and on and on. So many drinking games. Our group finished all the food and alcohol but they were still jumping to drink some more so they decided to go to another restaurant to drink and eat.. I was not really up for it. I wasn’t drunk but I was starting to get a bit bored. They give you more alcohol than food, so I went home.

Wednesday, Feb, 25, 2015

No orientation today. Me and my roommates and their friends went to Myeongdong to do some bargain shopping. We all woke up to walk to Anam station and learn how to travel using a T card that we bought. When we got there, there were stores everywhere. All the shops were running sales because they were trying to get rid of their winter clothes. We tried to get sim cards for our phones but we forgot our passports so we couldn't. Shopping was fun but due to our large group we moved pretty slowly and we couldn't split up since most of us didn't know the area, Korean language or have a way to contact each other. We decided to go our separate ways and me and my roommates picked up some convenience store food and ate together in the dorm and pretty much had a sleepover, kind of.

Thursday, Feb 26 2015

This was a lazy day. Because mostly every international student on campus was schedule to go on the tour of seoul. I didn’t go because I was pricey and the places they went to didn’t seem too exciting. Also traveling in extremely large group can cause things to be unfun. I spent the morning relaxing in my dorm and watching movies on netflix(google chrome; and media hint.) Then me and some friends decided to try out the laundry area. Then we went to Home Plus and Daiso to pick up some things for the dorm. I bought a hair straightener, towels and etc. Home plus is kind of like a Walmart. The only difference is the food and veggies are expensive. It was extremely cold and I left early when the sun was out and came back home when it was dark. Almost unbearably cold. I was happy to come back home and relax. One of our roommates came back to tell us about a party in Itaewon at Club Mute. However I decided not to go because it was cold, far and I spent too much earlier that day.